Update 861 — DOGELess Barking But Still Biting DOGE’s initial visibility, assault on the civil service, budget cuts, and firings drew unwanted scrutiny and criticism, making it the focal point for the backlash against Trump, Musk, and the GOP’s efforts to reshape the federal government. Since then, the Trump administration’s actions, from immigration to tariffs, …
Update 823 — Trump Rolls to Second TermFed Rate Cut 25bp; Powell Defiant on Trump Supported by 56 percent of working-class voters, themselves 57 percent of the electorate, and taking down the Blue Wall, Donald Trump won the presidential popular vote majority for the first time, en route to a 295-226 electoral college margin (on …
Update 821 — Closing Economic Arguments:Record and Vision Presented by Candidates Following Donald Trump’s controversial and divisive speech on Sunday at Madison Square Garden and Kamala Harris’s rousing final appeal last night at the National Mall, voters have now heard the candidates’ closing arguments in the 2024 campaign. Their cases on economic policy present a …
Update 820 — All but Tied: Polls in Bell Lap;Global Leaders Worry About Trump Tariffs The final New York Times/Siena poll of the 2024 election cycle published yesterday shows, for the first time, a flat-footed tie at 48 percent each for presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. In all of the seven battleground states …
Update 807 — 2024 Candidate Endorsements:For Colorado, Nevada, New Jersey, New York The 2024 federal election primary season is nearing an end. Polls continue to show the presidential race and majorities in the U.S. House and Senate up for grabs. 20/20 Vision is delighted to announce our third set of Congressional endorsements for the cycle. …
Update 790: Cong. Endorsements: IA, MD, MT, NE, NJ, NM, OR, PA Read More »
Update 655 — Georgia Breaks the Tie:Political, Policy Import of Warnock Win Senator Raphael Warnock won reelection in Georgia’s runoff this Tuesday, defeating GOP nominee Hershel Walker, football star turned flawed first-time candidate, by almost three points. With Georgia again flashing purple, Democrats have bolstered their claim on a traditionally southern, conservative state. So Warnock’s …
Update 650 — Economic Message Reset:Democrats’ Disadvantage or Opportunity? Conventional wisdom has long assumed that Americans understand and trust the GOP on economic policy issues, and support its candidates more often than Democrats. Voters this cycle favored Republicans almost 20 percent more on the economy than Democrats. This can’t be the norm if we want …
Update 649 — A Midterm Mandate?Finding Meaning in Voters’ Message The GOP may be in dire need of introspection, reappraisal, and course correction, following the message delivered by the voters and the best midterm performance by the party in power in almost a century. The lessons of this success need not be lost on the …
Update 648 — The 2022 Midterm ElectionsWhat’s Next for the Democratic Experiment? A sense of foreboding attends the countdown to the Congressional midterm elections ending next Tuesday. The stakes include control of Congress, much of the public and economic policy agenda, and possibly the destiny of democracy. Leaders of the Democratic party like President Biden …
Update 646 — The Political Economy, 2022One Step Closer to One-Dollar, One-Vote The massive sums raised, spent, and required by candidates for Congress to run are setting records, yet dwarfed this cycle by the amounts wealthy individuals and corporations are spending on their behalf. OpenSecrets is predicting over $9.3 billion will be spent on this …
